I am an agile coach with PMI background. Have been coaching teams for 4 years in scrum, kanban, lean and xp.

What do you plan to learn/explore at this conference?

I plan to learn a lot about people, people interactions, building teams and coaching individuals.Want to explore on new games which can be used to illustrate different agile principles.

How do you plan to contribute?

I help organize this event (Agile Coach Camp Norway), will definitely run a session or two on Open Space (coaching questions, responsibility, how to sell agile). Will bring my energy with me :)!

Ronald Doelen

What is your superpower?

Generalist looking for creative ways to improve (IT) organizations

What's your experience coaching teams toward being Agile?

I have coached 1 to 6 teams in different IT projects or IT program's. Last year I was one of the driving powers behind a transformation of a government IT programm from a waterfall approach to a agile approach

I have been working as an independent coach in UK since 2003. I have worked with a lot of teams. I wrote a book with Liz Sedley called "Agile Coaching"

What do you plan to learn/explore at this conference?

I want to learn about different coaching styles and how we adapt our styles to suit different organisational cultures.

How do you plan to contribute?

I would like to propose a session about building trust with agile teams.

Nils Wloka

What is your superpower?

Huge curiosity, lots of energy

What's your experience coaching teams toward being Agile?

I have introduced agile methods and thinking in several IT companies I worked with. Currently I am coaching internal teams on their way to self-organization and software craftsmanship.

What do you plan to learn/explore at this conference?

I'd like to find new instruments for my coaching toolbox and exchange ideas and experiences with other coaches.

How do you plan to contribute?

I can share my experience with coaching teams working for large enterprises under the constraints of fixed-price contracts and my thoughts on ways for agile adoption in IT consulting companies.

Eira Brunstad

What is your superpower?

I am passionate about software development, how to reduce waist and try to achieve "one piece flow"

What's your experience coaching teams toward being Agile?

I work as a scrum master at Cisco

What do you plan to learn/explore at this conference?

I want to improve my coaching skills and learn more about coaching and tools I can use.

How do you plan to contribute?

I will contribute with my experience and personality :)

Geir Amsjø

What is your superpower?

Experience in Software Process Improvement and Scrum

What's your experience coaching teams toward being Agile?

I have coached a lot of teams and I have experienced the huge diversity of problem areas to handle

What do you plan to learn/explore at this conference?

I like to understand company culture impact on selecting the coaching approach. And I am very eager to learn new techniques and methods for getting different teams agile

How do you plan to contribute?

By being engaged and eager to share experiences from different coaching situations

Magne D. Nordvang

What is your superpower?

inspired by agile methods applied to improve quality of software we are making

What's your experience coaching teams toward being Agile?

not much really...

What do you plan to learn/explore at this conference?

coaching approaches and techniques

How do you plan to contribute?

enthusiastically participate in this event

Ken Power

What is your superpower?

I am good at seeing the otherwise invisible connections between things.

What's your experience coaching teams toward being Agile?

I have been working with agile methods (first XP, then Crystal, Scrum and others; more recently Kanban and Lean) since 1998/1999. In that time I have introduced agile to lots of teams and multiple companies. I currently work for Cisco as an internal coach, working with multiple teams and organizations.

What do you plan to learn/explore at this conference?

I am open to learning new techniques, practices and ideas that will help me on my journey of becoming a better coach.
Specific topics that currently interest me, and I that I would like to explore, include:
(1) Coaching organizations – creating the right environment so our agile teams can thrive; helping the entire organization to become more agile;
(2) Stakeholder engagement and agile coaching – how to effectively engage with broad communities of stakeholders
(3) Coaching from a distance – working with distributed and dispersed teams;
(4) Creating coaching circles, coaching dojos and other learning environments within an organization

How do you plan to contribute?

I plan to propose a session from the ones I listed above, and fully participate in as many other sessions as possible. Also happy to help in any other way that’s needed.

Olaf Lewitz

What is your superpower?

I can lure or seduce people to do the things they really want to do.

What's your experience coaching teams toward being Agile?

I started introducing XP in a team in 2000 because I felt that was what they needed. Left when they didn't need me anymore. That became a pattern and I kept doing it for 10 years...
Found out this year that it's called coaching. Still love it.

What do you plan to learn/explore at this conference?

I want to share, to play, to listen. I may give hugs or smacks if that's called for. On thing's for sure: I will (be) surprise(d by) you.

How do you plan to contribute?

I'll bring Lego. Maybe a Rugby ball. And an open mind.

Steen Lerche-Jensen

What is your superpower?

Action.. I want to live I want to do.. no sitting back and watch the train pass .. Im on the train

What's your experience coaching teams toward being Agile?

Im a active scrum master and Agile Testlead which have been my life for some year now

What do you plan to learn/explore at this conference?

Want to learn more games that introduce agile pratices in an pro-active way. Tiered of reading book like "Agile Testing" - want to learn by doing

How do you plan to contribute?

Ill bring some games and I will be active in the groups

Sten Johnsen

What is your superpower?

Good with people, very conscious on relationships and are working part time as a relationship counselor.

What's your experience coaching teams toward being Agile?

Working as a Scrum Master for the major part of the last few years, but also experience as a team member. Now moving towards coaching other teams and Scrum Masters

What do you plan to learn/explore at this conference?

Sign in, engage, give and receive while having a great time together with other people passionate about agile thinking. Would be great to share some experience in team dynamics though...

How do you plan to contribute?

Commit, engage and contribute actively in all sessions where I participate.

Nick Oostvogels

What is your superpower?

I can keep my cool in stressfull situations, which allows me to think first and then act. Group facilitation is my main strength, getting people to think together and reach group decisions that add true value to the company.

What's your experience coaching teams toward being Agile?

3 years hands-on agile experience, 1 year coaching.

What do you plan to learn/explore at this conference?

I plan to boost my coaching skills, specifically on change management and soft skills. Learning from others and exploring new exercises and games. I hope to return with a bag full of new ideas and insights

How do you plan to contribute?

Sharing my experiences in facilitation, specifically in the area of continuous improvement.

Andrea Heck

What is your superpower?

I learn fast and have no fear.

What's your experience coaching teams toward being Agile?

In the last threee years I have been leading a lean and agile transition of a distributed project in a big hierarchical company.
I have tried to learn from agile coaches, coach the organization and the teams, and give feedback to teams about their agile life.

What do you plan to learn/explore at this conference?

Try to learn more about agile team coaching, especially about sharing and taking responsibility. Whether there is a special coaching style needed for teams in hierarchical organizations.

How do you plan to contribute?

By having a lot of energy and real life examples to share.

Jan Sølvberg

What is your superpower?

Observing hidden processes in groups

What's your experience coaching teams toward being Agile?

10+ years as coach and knowledge of agile; should create an interesting combination I hope.

What do you plan to learn/explore at this conference?

I look forward to getting to know people who are interested in this field and seek to share and explore practices with the other participants.

How do you plan to contribute?

Bringing my experience with the human side and looking for the not so obvious. At some point, when I least expect it, a new occation to learn will arise: Hopefully everyone will benefit from it!!

paul Carr

What is your superpower?

Facilitation skills - I have been a facilitator most of my career. Also experience from other projects than IT development. Experience from other IT processes (PMI, ITIL...)

What's your experience coaching teams toward being Agile?

5 years Scrum experience in various roles, mainly as scrum master and product owner.

What do you plan to learn/explore at this conference?

Improve my skills and learn about other tools and methods used in agile projects.

How do you plan to contribute?

I can contribute based on my experience of running Scrum in non-Scrum environments. Also about handling project management issues that are not part of Scrum, but still needs to be handled.

Johannes Brodwall

What is your superpower?

Code like the wind!

What's your experience coaching teams toward being Agile?

I've been introducing agile, leading agile teams and coaching team leads for the last five years in projects ranging from 4 people to 40.

What do you plan to learn/explore at this conference?

My interests are varied: I hope to learn how to lead better retrospectives, how to negotiate scope and plans for a target price project and to hone my Test-driven development and pairing skills.

How do you plan to contribute?

I can host coding dojos, both "safe" and experimental. I hope to exchange experience with target price projects. I plan to add lots of energy, joy and frustration to any discussion I am invited to join.

Benjamin Sommer

What is your superpower?

Seeing the whole, able to learn quickly. Get energized from making other excel.

What's your experience coaching teams toward being Agile?

Coaching teams in Scrum since 2006 - from one to 18 teams.

What do you plan to learn/explore at this conference?

Hope to learn from others experience on how to make the transision from coaching teams on Scrum to get the whole organisastion to embrace agile and Scrum mindset.

I have been coaching test teams in pulsing SCRUM projects for the past 3 yars. Making test agile is my every day challenge. Learning by doing.

What do you plan to learn/explore at this conference?

I want to be inspired and learn more about agile prosesses.

How do you plan to contribute?

Contribute with my test expirience from agile projects.

Emily Bache

What is your superpower?

Being enthusiastic.

What's your experience coaching teams toward being Agile?

I've been developing the idea of the coder's dojo as a way to get programmers to learn TDD, pair programming, refactoring etc.

What do you plan to learn/explore at this conference?

I want to become better at facilitating a group discussion. I'd like to learn how to design and use games to teach agile principles.

How do you plan to contribute?

I can talk about my ideas for getting programmers to adopt agile engineering practices. Johannes and I should run a coding dojo at some point.

Jon Jagger

What is your superpower?

I don't have one.

What's your experience coaching teams toward being Agile?

It's not easy!

What do you plan to learn/explore at this conference?

I don't know. I'll take it as it comes.

How do you plan to contribute?

I'm interested in experiential learning. For example the Kanban 1's Game and CyberDojo. I can run these if people are interested.

Nils Christian Haugen

What is your superpower?

Active listening and perceiving team feeling.

What's your experience coaching teams toward being Agile?

I have been a developer, architect and team lead on agile teams since 2003. For the past 5 years I have worked with several teams as an internal and lately external coach.

What do you plan to learn/explore at this conference?

Improve my agile coaching skills, especially learn and explore new retrospective techniques and other tools for motivating increased team collaboration.

How do you plan to contribute?

Actively participate in sessions and share my knowledge, experience and challenges, probably run an open space session or three.

Olve Maudal

What is your superpower?

C, C++, Emacs, Empathy and facilitation skills.

What's your experience coaching teams toward being Agile?

I have been indirectly coaching teams and organizations in lean and agile techniques for over a decade.

What do you plan to learn/explore at this conference?

Learn more about organizational change management and facilitation techniques.

How do you plan to contribute?

Sharing my passion for pursuing the fundamental truths about how to do effective software development with a large group of people.

Thor Henning Hetland

What is your superpower?

Winning big fights

What's your experience coaching teams toward being Agile?

Used as a technique to win the big fights in dozens of projects since 2000

What do you plan to learn/explore at this conference?

I'd love to get some work done in establishing project value models to help agile projects with the balance between quick&easy and R&D elements

How do you plan to contribute?

My agile tragedy angle should provide helpfull in mooving the discussions from my technique/way of dooing is better than yours to focussing on how we use the techniques to produce real value.

Marianne Worren

What is your superpower?

My curiosity, combined with being open minded and eager to learn.

What's your experience coaching teams toward being Agile?

Being a graduate this year, I have not (yet) had the chance to lead a team.

What do you plan to learn/explore at this conference?

How agile coaching is practiced in different organizations and projects, and how theses practitioners' experience can help us to be better at it.

How do you plan to contribute?

With my academical background, I can supply with research based knowledge concerning agile software development. As I just started my career, I have a fresh view on things, and the ability to ask critical questions concerning the way we practice agile.

Dadi Ingolfsson

What is your superpower?

My voracious appetite for learning.

What's your experience coaching teams toward being Agile?

Been working with agile methods for 8 years now, and for the last 3 I have been doing nothing but coaching teams in various organizations in Iceland.

What do you plan to learn/explore at this conference?

I really want to explore structured ways of continuous improvement at all levels of an organization. Fascinated by Toyota's Improvement Kata. Also, I'm very keen on getting into dialogues about systems thinking, facilitation, culture, ...anything to become a better coach.

How do you plan to contribute?

I plan to engage fully, propose some sessions and be as open as I can :-)

Vidar Moe

What is your superpower?

* Understanding the importance of taking the first step.
* Taking the first step.

What's your experience coaching teams toward being Agile?

Working as Agile Inspirator, Developer and Architect for many years.

What do you plan to learn/explore at this conference?

I want to learn more about coaching in general and specifically learn more about trust and how to effectively build trust both inside and outside the team.

How do you plan to contribute?

As much as I can.

Ralf Kruse

What is your superpower?

Seeing the whole

What's your experience coaching teams toward being Agile?

I have coached teams in various industrial sectors from small new media companies to units of international cooperations.

What do you plan to learn/explore at this conference?

I look forward to getting in touch with other agile practitioners and seek to share and explore practices.

I have extensive experience from both sides of a project. I often work as the product owner of a project (if that role really exists).

What's your experience coaching teams toward being Agile?

I have worked with project managers and coached them in finding the right balance between traditional project management and agile practices.

What do you plan to learn/explore at this conference?

I'm open. There are many areas that interest me. Combining systems thinking with agile is an area that I am especially interested in at the moment.

How do you plan to contribute?

A non-dogmatic view of how to use agile.

Morten Løkke Andersen

What is your superpower?

N/A

What's your experience coaching teams toward being Agile?

N/A

What do you plan to learn/explore at this conference?

I take it as it comes

How do you plan to contribute?

Be active participant on those Open space I choose to attend

Ivana Gancheva

What is your superpower?

Listening between the lines; seeing the big picture; moving people and processes up and forward.

What's your experience coaching teams toward being Agile?

Not much. Mostly through agile project management.

What do you plan to learn/explore at this conference?

Nice people, bright ideas, principles, techniques and experiences. In addition, I strongly believe we could generate some new things together.

How do you plan to contribute?

Bringing my experience and passion for the industry.

Reinert Kamøy

What is your superpower?

Seeing the bigger picture and loving people.

What's your experience coaching teams toward being Agile?

Working as a Scrum Master and Scrum Coach for the last 3 years in very large organisations.

What do you plan to learn/explore at this conference?

Meeting people listening to their experiences in coaching teams into hyper-productive state. Getting feedback on the "big picture" on how to develop hyper-productive teams as well as learning about agile metrics.

How do you plan to contribute?

Share my experiences as a Scrum Master and Scrum Coach on what can go wrong as well as how to develop teams with a healthy focus on both getting things done as well as the relationships within the team.

Xavier Vergés

What is your superpower?

Stand in the shoulder of giants.

What's your experience coaching teams toward being Agile?

In 1999 I was blown away by @KentBeck's "Extreme Programming Explained" and introduced XP techniques in the team I was leading at IBM. Since then, I've been an agile practitioner and evangelist.

What do you plan to learn/explore at this conference?

Coaching styles and techniques. And quite a few things about myself.

How do you plan to contribute?

Listen eagerly, ask good questions, provide answers now and then.

Ole Morten Amundsen

What is your superpower?

kissing and other extreme techniques. Being temporarily insane, all of the time.

I want to learn how to communicate agile ideas even better. Many ideas are somehow counter-intuitive, as taking longer on each feature to be faster. Also, I'm giving a 2-hour speech the next week on lean, syststems thinking and agile, I hope to get a lot of input!